Viral DNA that is usually dismissed when sequencing the human genome could help to uncover useful information about complex ...

The brain and vagus nerve play a key role in exacerbating tissue damage after a heart attack, but there are ways to block it.

The Human Studies Facility is an unremarkable six-story red-brick building on the medical school campus of the University of ...

Humans can’t survive without taking a breath. And the lungs are the pneumatic engines that take in oxygen to be distributed ...

New data are revealing the benefits of exercising little and often. Exercise is well understood to be good for you, but how ...

Scientists have launched a fresh effort to find out what could be producing oxygen at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

‘Exercise snacks’ and other forms of everyday movement can greatly reduce the risk of heart disease and death.

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

Scientists seek to understand the factors that have allowed people in Brazil to reach their 100th or even 110th birthdays despite facing adversities.

To get the most out of the sensing revolution, different disciplines need to be on the same wavelength. This is a priority ...

Genetic analyses of koala pedigrees help to suss out virus-induced genome changes that affect cancer risk and reproductive ...

More than a billion cases of foodborne diseases, such as norovirus infections and salmonellosis, are recorded in Africa each ...